Question about Dungeon game on the PDP 33

OK, so the MDL sources were used in a VAX Fortran port. Sorry, I haven't had much to do with VMS systems over the last 28 years--DECUS NOTES for a while when I chaired a SIG working group--so the way you worded it looked as if you were claiming that MDL ran on a VAX.

Total of 280 pages in 3 files ! !def mdl: dsk: !zork Welcome to Dungeon. This version created March 30. You are in an open field west of a big white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet. Taken. WELCOME TO DUNGEON

DUNGEON is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal man. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained within!

In DUNGEON the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten secrets of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth, searching for vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures guarded by fearsome monsters and diabolical traps!

No PDP-10 should be without one!

DUNGEON was created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling. It was inspired by the ADVENTURE game of Crowther and Woods, and Dungeons and Dragons, by Gygax and Arneson. DUNGEON is written in MDL (alias MUDDLE).

On-line information may be available using the HELP and INFO commands (most systems).

I. Getting a ZORK-DUNGEON a. ITS: Say ZORK^K to DDT rather than :ZORK to get a zork. b. 10X-20X: Invoke the local dungeon (usually DUNGEO)

Your score would be 0 total of 500 points, in 5 moves. This score gives you the rank of Beginner. Do you wish to leave the game? (Y is affirmative): y !!

Note that the original MDL version says "PDP-10", not "DECSYSTEM".

Question about Dungeon game on the PDP 34First, let me point out that there is no such thing as "the PDP." DEC sold four different families of computers whose names were PDP-n: PDP-1-4-7-9-15 (18-bit), PDP...

I've been carrying that version of MDL, the MADADV save file, and the ZORK startup program from place to place since early 1978, when it came to Chicago from DEC HQ. I've always had hardware on which to play it, but then, I've been lucky in my career (though some might disagree ;-).

Even better, I can play it on SimH or KLH10 these days, too!

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